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Free electron
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_electron
Free electron
in physics may refer to:
Electron
, as a
free particle
Solvated electron
Charge carrier
, as carriers of electric charge
Valence electron
, as an outer shell electron that is associated with an atom
Valence and conduction bands
, as a conduction band electron relative to the electronic band structure of a solid
Fermi gas
, as a particle of a non-interacting electron gas
Free electron model
, as a particle in the Drude-Sommerfeld model of metals
Free-electron laser
, as a particle in the electron beam
See also
[
edit
]
Independent electron approximation
Lone pair
or free electron pair
Nearly free electron model
Orbital angular momentum of free electrons
Unpaired electron
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